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inland-turquoise
Run EXE in Prefix vs running as game behaviour difference
What's the supposed to be difference apart from the fact the file picker has to be pressed?
It seems that some applications act differently, even with all the options unticked.
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conscious-sapphire•2y ago
with run exe in prefix you can run other things, like you can install directx or any other dependency in the game's prefix, it's not meant to be used to actually run the game
inland-turquoiseOP•2y ago
but what does it actually do differently when run
conscious-sapphire•2y ago
with
run exe in prefix we only execute an exe using wine in the corresponding prefix
when running the game, we actually call the underlying app that mimics epic/gog/amazon launchers that takes care of authentication, drm, setting environment variables, checking cloud saves, logs, keeping track of played time, etc
they are 2 different things, they do completely different things
if you want to run an executable in the prefix of a game you use run exe in prefix (you could potentially use it to actually run the game's executable for drm-free games, but there's no reason to do that, this is meant to run other things inside the prefix, not the actual game), if you want to run a game you just click play to run it